Investment thesis
TVL and the displayed APR do not tell you the yield an LP or a lender keeps. Tested on 90 days of NEAR mainnet data read at one block per day, with the rules that would falsify it fixed in advance.
Blocks 210237960 → 223087984
2026-08-06 → 2026-11-04
Verdict
3 / 3
SUPPORTED on all three counts
H1 · shown ≠ kept (Rhea)
✓holds
14 of 16 pools: nominal above what an LP kept; 4 within 2 pp
H2 · TVL does not rank outcome
✓holds
Spearman ρ = 0.33 (falsified at ≥ 0.7)
H3 · shown ≠ accrued (Burrow)
✓holds
7 of 18 markets off by > 0.5 pp; the weakest count